Publisher:
Oxford University Press with The Siam Society
Published:
1988
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17604130808
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xxxi, 408pp. Red cloth in jacket. Light toning to top edge, bookstore label inside front cover. Finlayson accompanied John Crawford, leader of the English East india Company mission to Siam and Vietnam in 1921-22, as surgeon and naturalist. It contains useful information about the places visited, the people and their customs and provides an antidote to Crawford's attitudes and prejudices. Also has intersting descriptions of the flora and fauna.